including the partisan trillion-dollar project masquerading as a stimulus bill and the deficit-busting budget.[or if he] had not worked early to support agenda-driven omnibus pork bills, job-killing cap and trade schemes, and union assaults on workers’ rights, to name just a few of his priorities.

He came in trailing clouds of glory — apologies to Wordsworth — but, with no apology, “Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”

Back in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side? Bill Daley wants a bigger tent, but Obama don’t like no big tents, and he’s looooooooosing . . . .